<div id="readability-page-1"><p>Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. acquired a new stake in shares of  Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG - Free Report) in the fourth quarter, according to the company in its most recent filing with the SEC. The firm acquired 11,310 shares of the company's stock, valued at approximately $1,538,000.</p><ul><li>Datadog Soars, Dynatrace Slumps: Gap Widens in AI Agent Stocks</li></ul><p>A number of other institutional investors and hedge funds also recently added to or reduced their stakes in the stock. Vanguard Group Inc. lifted its holdings in  Datadog by 30.3% during the 3rd quarter. Vanguard Group Inc. now owns 41,902,227 shares of the company's stock valued at $5,966,877,000 after buying an additional 9,748,738 shares in the last quarter.  State Street Corp lifted its holdings in  Datadog by 106.8% during the 3rd quarter. State Street Corp now owns 13,732,777 shares of the company's stock valued at $1,955,547,000 after buying an additional 7,091,075 shares in the last quarter.  Jennison Associates LLC lifted its holdings in  Datadog by 43.7% during the 4th quarter. Jennison Associates LLC now owns 7,623,993 shares of the company's stock valued at $1,036,787,000 after buying an additional 2,316,994 shares in the last quarter.  Invesco Ltd. lifted its holdings in  Datadog by 119.2% during the 3rd quarter. Invesco Ltd. now owns 4,075,721 shares of the company's stock valued at $580,383,000 after buying an additional 2,216,402 shares in the last quarter.  Finally, Northern Trust Corp lifted its holdings in  Datadog by 45.0% during the 3rd quarter. Northern Trust Corp now owns 2,707,291 shares of the company's stock valued at $385,518,000 after buying an additional 840,633 shares in the last quarter. Institutional investors own  78.29% of the company's stock. </p><h2>Analysts Set New Price Targets</h2><p>A number of equities research analysts recently weighed in on the stock. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce  reiterated an &#34;outperform&#34; rating and set a $250.00 price objective on shares of Datadog in a report on Friday, May 8th. Weiss Ratings  reissued a &#34;sell (d+)&#34; rating on shares of Datadog in a research report on Monday, April 20th. Stifel Nicolaus  set a $305.00 target price on shares of Datadog in a research report on Thursday, May 7th. Bank of America cut their target price on shares of Datadog from $215.00 to $170.00 and set a &#34;buy&#34; rating on the stock in a research report on Wednesday, April 22nd. Finally, Sanford C. Bernstein raised their target price on shares of Datadog from $167.00 to $180.00 and gave the company an &#34;outperform&#34; rating in a research report on Friday, May 8th. One equities research analyst  has rated the stock with a Strong Buy rating, forty have issued  a Buy rating, one  has issued  a Hold rating and two have assigned  a Sell rating to the company's stock. According to data from MarketBeat.com, the stock presently has an average rating of &#34;Moderate Buy&#34; and an average price target of $213.38.</p><ul><li>The AI Fear Around Datadog Stock May Have Been Completely Wrong</li></ul><p><b>Get Our Latest Report on DDOG</b></p><h2>Datadog Stock Up 3.0%</h2><p>Shares of Datadog stock opened at $215.15 on Wednesday. The firm's 50 day moving average price is $138.70 and its 200-day moving average price is $139.74. The company has a quick ratio of 3.40, a current ratio of 3.40 and a debt-to-equity ratio of 0.25. Datadog, Inc. has a 52-week low of $98.01 and a 52-week high of $215.68. The company has a market cap of $76.58 billion, a P/E ratio of 566.20, a PEG ratio of 67.81 and a beta of 1.30. </p><ul><li>The Market Is Selling Everything, but These 5 Stocks Aren't Breaking Down</li></ul><p>Datadog (NASDAQ:DDOG - Get Free Report) last issued its quarterly earnings data on Thursday, May 7th. The company reported $0.60 earnings per share (EPS) for the quarter, topping analysts' consensus estimates of $0.51 by $0.09. Datadog had a net margin of 3.69% and a return on equity of 4.83%. The firm had revenue of $1.01 billion for the quarter, compared to the consensus estimate of $960.12 million. During the same quarter in the previous year, the firm earned $0.46 EPS. The company's quarterly revenue was up 32.1% compared to the same quarter last year. Datadog has set its FY 2026 guidance at 2.360-2.440 EPS and its Q2 2026 guidance at 0.570-0.590 EPS.  On average, sell-side analysts predict that  Datadog, Inc. will post 0.35 EPS for the current fiscal year. </p><h2>Insider Transactions at Datadog</h2><p>In other news, Director Matthew Jacobson sold 52,832 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Friday, May 8th. The shares were sold at an average price of $189.28, for a total value of $10,000,040.96. Following the transaction, the director owned 622,726 shares of the company's stock, valued at $117,869,577.28. The trade was a 7.82% decrease in their position. The sale was disclosed in a filing with the Securities &amp; Exchange Commission, which is accessible through this link. Also, CTO Alexis Le-Quoc sold 53,912 shares of Datadog stock in a transaction that occurred on Tuesday, March 10th. The stock was sold at an average price of $125.49, for a total transaction of $6,765,416.88. Following the completion of the transaction, the chief technology officer directly owned 437,257 shares in the company, valued at approximately $54,871,380.93. The trade was a 10.98% decrease in their position. The SEC filing for this sale provides additional information. Insiders have sold a total of 842,739 shares of company stock valued at $121,023,123 in the last 90 days. Insiders own  6.48% of the company's stock. </p><h2>Datadog Profile</h2> (Free Report)<p>Datadog <span>NASDAQ: DDOG<span></span></span> is a cloud-based monitoring and observability platform that helps organizations monitor, troubleshoot and secure their applications and infrastructure at scale. Its software-as-a-service offering collects and analyzes metrics, traces and logs from servers, containers, cloud services and applications to provide real-time visibility into system performance and health. Datadog's platform is widely used by engineering, operations and security teams to reduce downtime, accelerate incident response and improve application reliability.  </p><p>The company's product suite includes infrastructure monitoring, application performance monitoring (APM), log management, real user monitoring (RUM), synthetic monitoring and network performance monitoring, along with security-focused products such as security monitoring and cloud SIEM.</p><h2>Featured Articles</h2><ul><li>Five stocks we like better than Datadog</li><li>HIVE Weaponizes Power for an AI Pivot</li><li>A Deep Dive Into NVIDIA’s Latest Portfolio Moves</li><li>Brady Corp Wires Up a Massive AI-Powered Breakout</li><li>Why Home Depot’s Sell-Off Could Become a Huge Opportunity</li></ul><p><img src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.marketbeat.com/scripts/SECFilingChart.ashx/query-UHJlZml4PU5BU0RBUSZTeW1ib2w9RERPRw?x-oss-process=image/auto-orient,1/interlace,1/resize,w_1440,h_1440/quality,q_95/format,jpg" width="650" height="350" original-src="https://imageproxy.pbkrs.com/https://www.marketbeat.com/scripts/SECFilingChart.ashx/query-UHJlZml4PU5BU0RBUSZTeW1ib2w9RERPRw"/></p><p><em>This instant news alert was generated by narrative science technology and financial data from MarketBeat in order to provide readers with the fastest reporting and unbiased coverage. 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<p>Lazard Freres Gestion S.A.S. acquired 11,310 shares of Datadog, Inc. (NASDAQ:DDOG) valued at approximately $1.54 million in Q4. Other institutional investors also increased their stakes, with Vanguard Group raising its holdings by 30.3%. Analysts have set various price targets for Datadog, with an average target of $213.38. Datadog's stock opened at $215.15, showing a 3.0% increase, and reported a quarterly EPS of $0.60, exceeding estimates.</p>

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